The mind-bending images are inspired by anamorphism, a centuries-old technique used in frescoes and other drawings to create the illusion of height and width (as such, 3D street painting is sometimes called anamorphic or illusionistic).

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Very interesting, and thanks, Sumit, for supplying the gallery. One of my favorite public sculptures in Ljubljana is the monument to the Slovene novelist and playwright Ivan Cankar, which stands in front of the Cankar Cultural Center. Designed by the sculptor Slavko Tihec, it is in the shape of a cube. On the front and the back, if you look at it directly, you see what looks like wavy vertical grooves, but if you look at it slightly from an angle, you see the writer's face. I have always thought this was a brilliant way to present in bronze the idea of reading: you don't always get the meaning until you find the right angle from which to approach it.

A method of creating a wide screen image with standard film, using a special lens on the camera and projector that compresses the width of the image that is exposed on the film and then expands it when projected.